In Re Silverman’s Empirical Analysis
1981
Citation profile
Relationships
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 1920 · 28 U.S.C. § 1927
Relies on Alyeska Pipeline Service Company v. Wilderness Society · Roadway Express, Inc. v. Piper · F. D. Rich Co. v. United States Ex Rel. Industrial Lumber Co. · Fleischmann Distilling Corp. v. Maier Brewing Co. · Vaughan v. Atkinson
Most-quoted passages
The sentences later courts lift from this opinion, ranked by how many decisions quote each — the parts of the opinion doing the work. These counts are smaller than the citation total above because most of the 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Any attorney or other person admitted to conduct cases in any court of the United States or any Territory thereof who so multiplies the proceedings in any case unreasonably and vexatiously may be required by the court to satisfy personally the excess costs, expenses, and attorneys’ fees reasonably incurred because of such conduct.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage
How this case has been treated — in progress
Whether each later court followed, distinguished, criticized, or overruled this decision. The treatment classification (task #35) runs highest-cited cases first and lights up here as it reaches this one.